Christmas in July

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You can see why the novel The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacqueline Mitchard made such a hit as the first selection of the Oprah book club and why its film version, directed by Ulu Grosbard from a script by Stephen Schiff, will doubtless be the chick flick of the season. There’s a child…

One of the great films of the last half century keeps being re-made, each time more memorably and more resonantly than the last

The X-Files, directed by Rob Bowman (no relation) and written by the series’s creator, Chris Carter, gives us an example of the perfect post-modern movie, because it presents to us a non-functional conspiracy. That is to say, the conspiracy is detached from its objective, or else the objective is so obscure that it remains unclear…

A slacker comedy with some tentative and swiftly-disregarded pretensions to seriousness

An immensely moving account of goodness, holiness and Christian martyrdom — remember that? — amid a political landscape much like our own